Scientific study

A Hebrew U study shows the brain predicts and times sounds during focus, revealing how we tune out noise and stay attentive, a finding that could improve hearing aids and attention training.

The findings may redefine the known boundaries of life on Earth and offer a model for what microbial life might look like on Mars or other arid planets.

The materials, known as MXenes, are made up of sheets only a few atoms thick, and they can interact with light in ways that could make future technologies faster, smaller, and more efficient.

A new study shows that the collective psychological trauma of October 7 and the subsequent war has left Israeli Jewish adults reeling.

The researchers recorded a small number of unexplained signals suspected to be lightweight dark matter.

Can Israel, which against the odds is still flourishing, avoid the youth despondency that afflicts the US and other wealthy countries?

The findings provide a rare glimmer of hope amid a global coral crisis, as reefs worldwide collapse under rising ocean temperatures.

According to the study, roughly one in four university students became more religious, while one in three described themselves as more spiritual.

New research suggests that, through images, popular media too often characterizes older adults as “dependent rather than productive members of society," arguing that these images construct reality.

A study from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem suggests that tracking animal movement and behavior in near real-time could detect dangerous pathogens.